If we asked you to come up with a list of all the presentation problems you’ve seen as a manager, we’d both be here all week. From last minute corrupted files to the company logo from last year, you’ve probably felt the stress of it all whilst wondering why this problem seems to be infallible against change. Business does not want PowerPoint to die. It’s predictable, and stops showmanship getting in the way of bad content. It never fails to show the ugly truth, and it doesn’t dazzle you with impressive results and in the corporate world that’s a pretty valuable card to hold. So besides hauling ..read more

Getting your first presentation slide right can be a tricky task. It sets the tone of your whole presentation, and can make or break you in terms of confidence. Always alter your presentation openings, depending on your audience. Remember that what might work for you in a boardroom would likely turn a room of millennials into a bored room. But don’t worry. Our advice isn’t to start telling jokes at any available opportunity. Instead, we’ve collated the many various ways you can start a speech, to inspire you to choose a presentation slide that’s right for you, and your audience. 22. Welcome ..read more

Discussing the ways to improve memory is a topic of many a conversation nowadays. From chomping down on walnuts to getting enough sleep, there is so much ‘sacred’ advice out there, how are we supposed to know the real ways to improve memory recall practically? When it comes down to it, the right ways to improve memory come down to your own lifestyle and life choices. Being the good people that we are decided to come up with a comprehensive list of every knowledge nugget available for you to see what to work on. Plus a memory challenge to help you along. 40. Make Life a Little Harder  ..read more

It’s a tricky one. Stripped back, every person is inherently different, and learning how to understand your whole team can be a lot of work. That’s why deciding to focus on your teams attitude to teamwork, instead of all the other things, might be the key to understanding your team. Is your Team Introverted or Extroverted? For some team members, having a professional and productive approach towards teamwork will require you to ramp it up. Greater brainstorming and working lunches, open desk spaces at the office and team building exercises would get them to be their best. To these people, human ..read more

Brand ambassadors used to be focused around celebrity culture, but it’s not about who cuts the ribbon  at the supermarket anymore. On the contrary, it’s who works inside the supermarket that counts. Brand ambassadors are people in your company who understand the brand perfectly, and are able to literally take home the message and spread it around. From sharing your company content on Linkedin, to talking up your company at an old high school reunion, employees can become invaluable brand ambassadors when they understand what you’re about, and they place value in your company. What makes a ..read more

Your company can spend months conducting market research, quizzing customers, and weighing up the competition to create the perfect brand identity book. You can focus down on how best to document your image in design with fonts, palettes, and layouts carrying your message through to every advertisement, newsletter, and blog update. But there is one medium in which your brand book just seems to dissolve from a brand-spanking beautiful example of design, to a dusty old copy of Shakespeare… And that medium is Presentations. Presentations are the area in which designers, branding execs, and manage ..read more

The idea of an eidetic memory is one many of us have dreamed of. Whether that be distant memories of the night before an important exam, or more recent memories before giving an important presentation. But does it actually exist, or is the perfect memory just a phony idea altogether? From Tesla to Mr. T, many have claimed to have an eidetic memory. But doctors and scientists alike say it’s a fluke – suggesting that perhaps they have a better memory than most for remembering some things, but not everything, and therefore a perfect memory cannot exist in an extreme. What is an Eidetic ..read more

From back in the day, when we as cavemen discovered that shouting “urgh” at our fellow species resulted in a confirmed “urgh!”, we thought we could control our brain better than it controls us. Carry that through to today, and we think that if we know our points, have a good visual aid, and get some beauty sleep, talking in front of our fellow ex-cavemen will go swimmingly. Because we have prepared, and that is logical. On the day we are to stand up and make our points heard by some fellow humans, we think we’ve got it down. Until the far too familiar palm sweat stains the table as we stand up ..read more

We’ve all had a situation where we’ve been quite clearin our own mind what our idea is, but for some reason, others just don’t seem to get our point. After struggling to explain ourselves in twenty different ways with twenty different analogies, that’s where visual thinking steps in. It can also act as a primary method of coming up with ideas, for example by brainstorming in a department meeting. Or it can act as a backup. A guarantee that potential investors or audience members understand clearly the concepts we’re explaining. Visual thinking can also act as a way for us to organize our ideas ..read more

How bad is your presentation management? It might seem like a pretty direct question, but few of us really know what presentations management is actually about. Let alone how to be any good at it. Most of us can relate to a plethora of presentations floating around on memory sticks, shared drives, various cloud services, and of course on our trusty desktops. But it’s exactly this organisational ‘system’ which causes us problems when we try to find the best presentation we made a few years back, and our colleagues problems when they promise to send us slides from the last company conferenc ..read more